Original version(s)

• premiered in El Cairo, Egypt, December 24, 1871

 

FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• quoted in RDNZL Palermo, 1982 (Video Omen) on The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle 21.12.2014 (2014), performed in Palermo, July 14

 

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• October-December 1980 (North America)—known performances: 1; known quotations: 7
• August-September 1981 (rehearsals)—known quotations: 1
• May-July 1982 (Europe)—known quotations: 5
• February-March 1988 (North America)—known performances: 1
• April-June 1988 (Europe)—known performances: 1

 

Comments

A partial list of "Aïda" quotations, compiled by Charles Ulrich

11/28/80 (early) Chicago ((City Of Tiny Lights; stand-alone)
11/29/80 (late) Chicago (The Torture Never Stops)
11/30/80 Des Moines (Dead Girls Of London, The Torture Never Stops)
12/2/80 Fort Collins (City Of Tiny Lights)
12/8/80 Santa Barbara (City Of Tiny Lights)
12/11/80 (late) Santa Monica (City Of Tiny Lights)
8/5/81 rehearsal (stand-alone)
6/19/82 (late) London (King Kong)
7/5/82 Genoa (Pound For A Brown)
7/7/82 Milan (soundcheck)
7/9/82 Rome (soundcheck; RDNZL)
7/12/82 Naples (soundcheck; RDNZL)
7/14/82 Palermo (RDNZL)
2/10/88 Washington (classical medley)
6/7/88 Rome (stand-alone)

Any more?

 

Conceptual Continuity

Reader's Digest No Unwanted Melodies

• Aida (Act II, Scene 2)
• Lohengrin (Act III, Prelude)
• Carmen
• 1812 Overture
• There Goes My Baby